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Location:

Cypress,TX,

Member Since:

Oct 10, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5K: 24:22 (March 2010); 22:33 (October 2010); 20:47 (May 2011); 21:05 (May 2012); 21:33 (September 2012); 21:23 (November, 2013); 22:31 (September 2014)

5M:  39:22 (November, 2012); 35:54 (November, 2013); 36:03 (March, 2015)

10K: 44:08 (November, 2010); 49:20 (July, 2013); 44:07 (April, 2015)

12K:  56:03 (December, 2013); 58:58 (December, 2014)

10M:  1:11:58 (October, 2012); 1:15:24 (October, 2014)

Half Marathon:  1:53:xx (London's Run 2010); 2:05:21 (Cowtown 2010); 1:37:04 (Gusher 2011); 1:42:19 (Huntsville 2011); 1:33:47 (Baytown Jailbreak 2012); 1:33:50 (The Woodlands 2012); 1:42:52 (Texas 2015); 1:49:17 (Jailbreak 2015); 1:38:34 (The Woodlands 2015)

25K: 2:01:47 (Fifth Third River Bank, May 2014)

Marathon: 5:51:35 (Texas Marathon 2009); 6:21:36 (Ogden 2009); 4:58:29 (St. George 2009); 4:13:45 (Texas Marathon 2010); 4:04:12 (Utah Valley Marathon, 2010); 5:11:14 (Hartford ING, 2010); 3:41:43 (Richmond SunTrust, 2010); 3:39:27 (Texas Marathon 2011); 3:41:46 (Utah Valley Marathon, 2011); 3:30:35 (St. George 2011); 3:41:51 (Richmond 2012); 3:49:15 (Texas 2013); 3:46:59 (Paavo Nurmi, 2013); 3:34:04 (St. George 2013); 3:49:51 (Texas 2014); 3:31:59 (Richmond 2014); 3:28:34 (Boston 2015)

Short-Term Running Goals:

3:20, 1:30, 0:20

Long-Term Running Goals:

I'm 60, there is no long term.

Personal:

I live, work and run in Houston, Texas.  I have run 17 marathons, some good ones and some others.  I prefer straight, flat, cold, sea-level marathons, still waiting for my first one.  I feel like there are more PRs out there.  When I have them, I am told it is time to dial it back, run for healthy reasons.  I'm sure that's right, and I'm sure it won't happen.

My wife and I are from the mountains of the west.  We have five kids, three granddaughters and three grandsons.  The kids and grandkids are native Texans but we are not -- you have to be born here.

As for my blog title: I run most of my miles before sunrise, sometimes hours before. On the back road of my neighborhood two hours before daylight, I can depend on a pack of mutts behind the boundary fence lighting up when they hear my footsteps. I have wondered what they wanted; but according to Hemingway I needn't ask.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.185.000.000.0010.18

68F, 100%, N 7 mph, clear then cloudy.  Got in late from a dinner last night, where I ate too much rich food.  Was planning to sleep a little later, but woke up like a clock at 4:15, out the door by 4:50.  I wanted to get 6 before the seminary run.  It was originally supposed to be speed intervals today, but I was afraid of aggravating my foot, so I ran MP miles instead.  After 1 mile warmup I went 5 at GMP:  7:36 (157), 7:30 (160), 7:24 (163), 7:31 (164) and 7:39 (165).  Then drove my daughter to the church and ran 4 more slow miles (8:40 - 9:00) from there -- restarts are always painful but I got through it.  Overall 10.18 miles in 1:24:04, 8:15 per mile.  Then drove to the gym and did legs and core for about an hour, came home and ate, then stretched and rolled.  I felt one small twinge in my foot at about mile 4 of the fast ones, but that was it.  I probably saved a week of training but cutting it short on Monday.  Legs feel very tired this morning but not stiff and sore.

Comments
From Bec on Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:38:15 from 68.206.133.141

Great workout today!

From SonofaFlatlander on Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:05:45 from 139.52.179.127

Great news that the foot is feeling better, knock on wood. What in the world is there to do between 4:15 and 4:50, besides watching reruns of the Jerry Springer Show?

From Smooth on Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:10:33 from 174.27.212.157

Glad the foot is feeling better. You are SO DEDICATED to put in all these super early morning miles.

From derhammer on Wed, May 09, 2012 at 15:30:50 from 64.245.52.2

Wow - that's quite a morning. I think I would want to come home and take a nap after all that. :-)

From flatlander on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:58:30 from 76.31.26.153

Bec, thanks, sorry for all the hot weather you will be facing this summer.

Clint, none of your business.

Smooth, thanks, that is very kind of you. Btw, I ran a race on Saturday that your daughter also ran, although I didn't see her there. A mutual friend told me that she puked afterwards, because her mom told her that if she didn't feel like throwing up she didn't run hard enough!

DH, I get that nap in pretty often, actually.

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